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Written by Just Another Amy on 2024-12-10 at 16:22

People are very aggressively sure that they know what is not assistive — straws, pre-peeled and pre-cut produce, LLMs.

Why they’re so sure they know better than people requiring the assistance alludes me, but their confidence is enviable I suppose.

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Written by Just Another Amy on 2024-12-10 at 16:37

If polite email small talk comes rapidly and easily to you, that’s great and I wish you well.

There are all kinds of reasons why that may not be the case for someone who is not you, and for them — with good prompting — LLMs can be assistive.

Spending half a day agonising over a minor email is not a good use of anyone’s time.

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Written by Just Another Amy on 2024-12-10 at 16:54

Technology is just tools.

It’s good and useful to think critically about the systems that produce those tools; about who owns and controls them, and how that shapes their form and distribution; about the context they’re received into; about how they can and could be used.

But no tool has an inherent and limited use or an inherent moral value.

Falling into B&W thinking about tools is reductive and misleading.

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